Math Warm-ups Teaching Resources
Download math warm-up activities, worksheets, and more to engage your students and ready them for the actual lesson in this teacher-created resource collection!
The math warm-ups in this collection include puzzles, task cards, games, sorting activities, and more. These math warm-ups give students opportunities to explore fundamental number concepts, such as the counting sequence, one-to-one correspondence, and computation strategies.
What Are Math Warm-Ups?
Math warm-ups are short, low-stakes activities that students do at the beginning of a math class to review and reinforce key concepts, skills and problem-solving strategies. Engaging math warm-ups can also encourage students to explore number combinations, place value, patterns, and other important mathematical concepts.
The goal is to engage students' minds and help them transition into math mode in your classroom while preparing them for the main lesson.
What Are Examples of Math Warm-Ups?
Looking to add a warm-up activity to your math lessons each day? You can keep it simple with quick math problems, reviewing formulas, working on word problems, or solving puzzles.
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Open-ended Math Problem Solving - Grades 1, 2, and 3 (Task Card Version)
A set of 20 open-ended problem solving task cards covering a range of mathematical concepts.
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Open-Ended Math Problem Solving - Grades 1, 2, and 3 (PowerPoint Version)
A PowerPoint with 20 open-ended problem solving questions covering a range of mathematical concepts.
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3-Digit Number of the Day Worksheet
A 3-digit place value worksheet to represent the number of the day in different ways.
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I Have, Who Has? Game - Place Value (3-Digit Numbers)
A whole-class game to consolidate students' understanding of 3-digit place value.
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Multiplication Hopscotch Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Equation Tails Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Dodging Equations Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Divide and Conquer Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Number of the Day Warm-Up PowerPoint
A 30-slide editable PowerPoint Template for a 'number of the day' warm up.
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I Have, Who Has? Game - Place Value (2-Digit Numbers)
A whole-class game to reinforce your students' understanding of place value.
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3D Shapes Bingo
Learn the names of the most common 3D objects with this whole-class Bingo game.
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Number Grid Game
A number grid game to practice determining a number that is 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, and 10 less than a given number.
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5-Digit Place Value Card Game - Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to consolidate their understanding of place value to the ten thousands place.
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Roll Me a Discount! Board Game
An interactive game to play in pairs to consolidate understanding of discounts and sale price.
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3D Shapes Dominoes
A set of dominoes to help students reinforce their understanding of 3-D figures.
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Number Matching Puzzle - Division
A hands-on game to play when learning about dividing numbers.
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Number Matching Puzzle - Multiplication
A hands-on game to play when learning about multiplying numbers.
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Number Matching Puzzle – Addition
A hands-on game to play when learning about adding larger numbers.
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Moving Mathematics Activity - Skip Counting By Twos
A fun and active way to practice counting by 2s.
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Numbers 0-10 Bingo
A set of 32 bingo cards to practice different representations of the numbers 0-10.
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Race to 10,000 - Number Pattern Game
A fun game for students to play to practice place value and mentally adding multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000.
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4-Digit Place Value Card Game - Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to consolidate their understanding of place value to the thousands place.
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4-Digit Place Value Warm Up - Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44-slide interactive PowerPoint to use when learning about place value to 4-digits.
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Alien Eyes - Number Game
A number game to help students with number identification (1–12) and counting small quantities.
- Math Warm-ups Games
- Math Warm-ups Bingo
- Math Warm-ups Worksheets
- Math Warm-ups Puzzles
- Math Warm-ups Dominoes
- Math Warm-ups Templates
- Math Warm-ups Active Games
- Math Warm-ups Matchup Games
- Math Warm-ups Instructional Slide Decks
- Math Warm-ups Card Games
- Math Warm-ups Board Games
- Math Warm-ups Logic Puzzles
- Math Warm-ups Interactive Activities
- Math Warm-ups Task Cards
- Math Warm-ups Tarsia Puzzles
- Math Warm-ups Dice Games
- Math Warm-ups Flashcards
- Math Warm-ups Cut and Paste Worksheets
- Math Warm-ups Sorting Activities
- Math Warm-ups Posters
- Math Warm-ups for Pre-K
- Math Warm-ups for Kindergarten
- Math Warm-ups for 1st Grade
- Math Warm-ups for 2nd Grade
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- Math Warm-ups for 7th Grade